These Catholic bishops need to fucking butt off my Wiccan ovaries and sex life

[infinitygoddess]

Apparently, these geniuses are behind the Komen/Planned Parenthood kerfuffle:

Church opposition reached dramatic new proportions in 2011, when the 11 bishops who represent Ohio's 2.6 million Catholics announced a statewide policy banning church and parochial school donations to Komen.

Such pressure helped sway Komen's leadership to cut funding to

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[cyndersofember]

So essentially bribery, and religious (no offense) practices have once again swayed the elected officials in seats of power. Monetary "gifts" and religion really should not have any sway within these political talks in my honest opinion.

[infinitygoddess]

Heh, I don't know of any Wiccan who imposes their religion on others, not even near as much as the Catholic Church, the Mormon Church, or fundamentalist evangelicals, so none taken. ;)

That being said, the only way I can see stopping them from being political is to deny them their tax-exempt status. Unfortunately, no politician here has taken a stand against them, in part because they don't want to look like "anti-Christian bigots" (although to be fair, President Obama's likely avoiding it because of the dumbasses who still think he's a Muslim; can't say I blame him for that).

[cyndersofember]

too true. Course I have read so much political dogma about my reproductive organs, that I just want to toss out every single of with a seat of power, and have the next generation of open minded individuals take over. Sad thing really, is that power corrupts. Specially where "monetary gifts" aka legalized bribes, are concerned. Sad world we live in when this is eventually how all governments are run.

[infinitygoddess]

Well, the women of the USA sure have woken up and the GOP will surely end up regretting that they ever listened to a group of whining old men in religious robes who use religion as an excuse for their misogyny while at the same time covering up for sex predators in their midst.

What I find most disturbing is that our media here is taking these thuggish bishops seriously as if they are the ends-all Moral Authority in spite of the sex abuse scandal that's ongoing and reported cases have gone international.